Martha Corey
E10647
Martha Corey was a devout, outspoken resident of Salem Village whose 1692 execution for witchcraft became one of the most infamous injustices of the Salem witch trials.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Martha Corey canonical | 6 |
| interacts with Bertram Cates | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7556 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Martha Corey Context triple: [Salem witch trials, notableVictim, Martha Corey]
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A.
Giles Corey
Giles Corey was an elderly farmer in colonial Massachusetts who became infamous for being pressed to death after refusing to enter a plea during the Salem witch trials.
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B.
Rebecca Nurse
Rebecca Nurse was a respected elderly Puritan woman in colonial Massachusetts who became one of the most famous individuals executed during the Salem witch trials.
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C.
John Proctor
John Proctor was a 17th-century Salem farmer who became one of the most famous individuals executed after openly challenging the legitimacy of the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Ann Putnam Jr.
Ann Putnam Jr. was one of the most prominent accusers during the Salem witch trials, whose testimonies played a major role in the prosecution and execution of alleged witches.
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E.
Thomas Putnam
Thomas Putnam was a prominent and influential accuser during the Salem witch trials, known for aggressively pursuing witchcraft charges against many of his neighbors.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Martha Corey Target entity description: Martha Corey was a devout, outspoken resident of Salem Village whose 1692 execution for witchcraft became one of the most infamous injustices of the Salem witch trials.
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A.
Giles Corey
Giles Corey was an elderly farmer in colonial Massachusetts who became infamous for being pressed to death after refusing to enter a plea during the Salem witch trials.
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B.
Rebecca Nurse
Rebecca Nurse was a respected elderly Puritan woman in colonial Massachusetts who became one of the most famous individuals executed during the Salem witch trials.
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C.
John Proctor
John Proctor was a 17th-century Salem farmer who became one of the most famous individuals executed after openly challenging the legitimacy of the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Ann Putnam Jr.
Ann Putnam Jr. was one of the most prominent accusers during the Salem witch trials, whose testimonies played a major role in the prosecution and execution of alleged witches.
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E.
Thomas Putnam
Thomas Putnam was a prominent and influential accuser during the Salem witch trials, known for aggressively pursuing witchcraft charges against many of his neighbors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Salem witch trials victim
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historical figure ⓘ person ⓘ |
| allegedCrime | witchcraft ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Giles Corey
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Salem Village church community ⓘ |
| characteristic |
devout
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outspoken ⓘ |
| country | Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| deathCause | execution by hanging ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1692-09-22 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Salem, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| era | 17th century ⓘ |
| familyName |
Cory
ⓘ
surface form:
Corey
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| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Martha ⓘ |
| historicalReputation | victim of judicial injustice ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalStatusAtDeath | executed ⓘ |
| locatedIn | New England ⓘ |
| name | Martha Corey self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials
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execution for witchcraft in 1692 ⓘ |
| opposed | early witchcraft accusations in Salem Village ⓘ |
| partOfEvent | Salem witch trials ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | a skeptical, outspoken woman critical of the witchcraft hysteria ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | The Crucible ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
New England Colonies
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surface form:
Colonial Massachusetts
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| religion | Puritanism ⓘ |
| residence |
Salem Village (now Danvers, Massachusetts)
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surface form:
Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| spouse | Giles Corey ⓘ |
| trialLocation |
Salem, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Martha Corey Description of subject: Martha Corey was a devout, outspoken resident of Salem Village whose 1692 execution for witchcraft became one of the most infamous injustices of the Salem witch trials.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
interacts with Bertram Cates